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VOL. 39—NO. 18
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SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1959
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OTHER SERVICES ANNOUNCED
^ Sunrise Services Will Be Held At
Four Places In Sandhills Sunday
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Easter Sunrise services will be
held at four churches in this area
Sunday morning.
Brownson Memorial
At Watson’s Lake the young
people’s ; group of Brownson
Memorial Presbyterian Church
will have their traditional pro
gram at 7 o’clock, then return to
the church for breakfast and
Sunday School. The young peo
ple are observing “Harvest Sun
day.”
Dr. Cheves Ligon will preach ■
at the 9 o’clock service, which
will have music by the junior
choir, and deliver the traditional
Easter message at the 11 o’clock
service.
Congregational
At the Church of Wide Fel
lowship a sunrise service will be
held at 6:30 with J. R. Howe as
the guest speaker. The pastor, the
Rev. Carl Wallaoa, will preach
at the regular 11 o’clock service.
One other Easter program to
night at 8 p. m., will also be held
at the churfch where a Baptismal
Service and Holy Communion
will be observed.
Methodist
At the Methodist Church a
sunrise service will be held at
6:30 in the church with the pro
gram given over to a short medi
tation and choir music.
Tonight Maunday Thursday
services are being held at 7:30,
and tomorrow night the Good
Friday services will be held at
the same hour. The Rev. Robert
Bame will preach on the “Seven
Last Words” at the Good Friday
service.
Sunday services'will be held as
usual at 11 o’clock.
First Baptist
A revival is in progress at the
First Baptist Church and those
programs are being held nightly
at 7 o’clock. '
On Easter Sunday, the Rev.
Maynard Mangum will preach at
the 11 o’clock service.
Combined Services
Another sunrise service, at
Crystal Lake in Lakevww, will
be held at 6 o’clock by the Manly
Presbyterian Church. An Easter
pageant entitled The Resurrec
tion will be presented by a cast
of 19 and a choir of 25 from
Presbyterian Churches in Lake-
vie^lv. Eureka and Manly.
SI. Anthony's
At St. Anthony’s Catholic
Church a Mass of the Lord’s Sup-
ner will be held tonight (Thurs
day) at 6 o’clock. A solemn lit
urgical function of Good Friday
will be held at 6 o’clock, and
Easter Saturday Vieil and Pas
chal Mass will be held at 11 p. m.
on Saturday.
Sunday morning there are
services scheduled at 8 o’clock
and 11 o’clock bv the Rev. Fran
cis M. Smith, the pastor;
Music for all services will be
the traditional Gregorian chants
and will be sung by St. An
thony's school choir.
Episcopal
The Rev. Martin Caldwell will
be the preacher at the three
Hours Service at Emmanuel Fnis-
copal Church at n^on Fridav.
'Those attending the services are
asked, if entering late or leaving
before three o’clock, to come and
go during the singing of the
hymns at intervals of 25 minutes.
The Holy Eucharist will he c.-’l-
ebrated three times on Easter
Dav at the church, at 8 a. m.,
9:30 a. m.. and 11 a. m.
Identical services will be held
at 9:30 and at 11, both based on
traditional' Easter themes.
Music Association
To Present Choral
Group Next Week
As the final program of the reg
ular season of the Sandhills Mus
ic Association, the 83-voice Fur
man University Singers will pre
sent a concert of choral music at
Weaver Auditorium, Monday,
March 30, at 8 p.m.
The mixed chorus from Fur
man University at Greenville, S.
C., has been directed for more
than 30 years by DuPre Rhame
and has become one of the best-
known choral groups in the
Southeast.
Guest piano soloist with the
group will be Milton Hallman,
a senior from Columbia, S. C.
Accompanists are David Redd
and Everett Summerall.
The Music Association will en
tertain the singers at dinner at
the Southland Hotel before the
concert. Following the program,
there will be a reception, given
by the First Baptist Church of
Southern Pines, in the school
cafeteria. The public is invited.
Norris Hodgkins, Jr., president
of the Music Association, said
this week that sufficient sleeping
accomodations had been offered
by residents of this area to pro
vide quarters for the singers
Monday night. He thanked all
who had made this possible.
There will be no buffet supper
for concert-goers prior to this
concert, Mr. Hodgkins said.
The six-part program to be
presented here includes:
“Merciful and Gracious Lord”
and “Gallia” by Gounod; “I See
His Blood Upon the Rose” by Kil
patrick; “Una Furtiva” by Doniz
etti; “LaCi Darem La Mane” by
Mozart;, prayer from “Hansel and
Gretel,” ch'orus of cigarette girls
from “Carmen,” and, from “Tann-
hauser,’’ the chorus of returning
pilgrims and “Hail, Bright
Abode.”
Following Mr. Hallman’s piano
solo, the group wiU sing “The
Dance” by Elgar; six Brahms love
songs; and selections from “My
iFair Lady.”
IT SMELLS LIKE SUMMERTIME, youngsters in the Sand
hills were saying yesterday as the temperature soared to 80 and
flowers burst out all over. Bonnie Bell, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Warren Bell of Pine Needles Club, gets a good whiff of a
jonquil she picked in front of Dr. George Heinitsh’s house and
she, too, said the summer smell was all over the place. Bonnie,
who is four years old, shows in the bottom picture that she’s as
pretty as anything that blooms in the summer, including every
other pretty girl. (Pilot photos)
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EASTER HOLIDAY
Easter Monday win, for
the most nart, be a holiday in
the Sandhills.
The banks, post offices and
most business establishments
will be closed to allow emi-
plovees a long Easter week
end
Also to be closed are the
public schools, wlJch let out
vesterday, the Southern
Pines Librarv, the court
house in Carthage, and the
municipal offices here.
Most stores will also be
closed for the day.
HARRY L. BROWN
Funeral Services
Held This Morning
For Harry Brown
. Harry Lee Brown, 63, well-
known local businessman and
former town board member, died
Monday night at his home after
a short illness.
Funeral services were held
Thursday at 10 a. m. at the
Church of Wide Fellowship con
ducted by the pastor. Rev. Carl
D. Wallace. Burial followed in
Mt. Hope cemetery.
A native of Bedford, Va., he
moved his home and business
from Charlotte to Southern Pines
in 1935. He successfully operated
his business, the H. L. Brown
Agency (business machines') over
a nine-county area until he sold
out in January 1958. He contin
ued to operate the Sandhill Of
fice Supply business which he es
tablished in 1955, in a new build
ing which he built on West Penn
sylvania avenue.
He was appointed to the town
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FOR RECREATION, RESIDENTIAL AREA
Lexington Man Purchases Thagard’s
Lake; Plans Extensive Development
Thagard’s Lake, about halfwayf"
between Carthage and Vass, is
being developed as a recreational-
residential area, the Pilot learned
this week.
A. B. Hardee of Lexington, who
has developed several other lakes
in the past few years, has entered
into an agreement to purchase
the lake, some 200 acres, from
John , Watson of Philadelphia,
who also is the owner of Watson’s
Lake between Southern Pines
and Pinehurst.
Bulldozers and other heavy
equipment have been in the area
all week clearing roads and mak
ing the property ready for sale
in lots.
Mr. Hardee has not been avail
able for comment but an associate
said the lake would probably be
cleaned out in the near future
and boat racing, skiing, and fish
ing would be the principal at
tractions.
The lake has long been a fam
ous fishing spot. It was part of
the power system operated by I.
F. Chandler before he sold his
power company to Carolina Pow
er & Light Company. The build
ing housing the water wheel is
still stsmding.
Annual Homes And
Garden Tour Set
Two Town Council Members File
For Re-Election; Five In Race
HowardBroughton
Announces For
Solicitor’s Post
Howard Broughton, young
Southern Pines attorney, yester
day filed for the office of Solici
tor of the Southern Pines Re
corder’s Court.
In the meantime E. O. Brog-
den, present Solicitor, said he
would not seek election to the
office, which he is serving now
by appointment of the Town
Council. Brogden said he needed
to devote more time to private
practice.
Broughton, who graduated
from the University of North
Carolina School of Law in 1958,
is a member of the firm of John
son and Johnson in Aberdeen.
His work has be>3n in both crim
inal and civil cases.
Last year he served as county
chairman of the drive for funds
for the Tuberculosis Association.
Married to the former Penelope
Dana, they .are members of the
Emmanuel Episcopal Church.
They make their home on Con
necticut Avenue.
The position of Solicitor of the
court pays $2,400 a year, the
same as the Judge.
The 11th annual tour of homes
and gardens in the Sandhills
will be held April 15 under the
sponsorship of the Southern
Pines Garden Club.
Beginning at the Shaw House,
where tickets will be available,
the tour covers four homes in
Southern Pines, one on Midland
Road, and three in Pinehurst.
Highlighting the tour again this
year will be the opening of the
gardens at Homewood, home of
Mr. and Mrs. Denison Bullens.
In order, the homes and gar
dens to be visited include those
of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ewing
oh Valley Road, Mr. and Mrs.
Robert M. Cushman, also on Val
ley Road, Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Re
gan on Airway Drive in Knoll-
wood, Mr. and Mrs. Bullens, Mr.
and Mrs. Franklin Safford on
Midland Road, and Mr. and Mrs.
Warner Atkins, Mr. and Mrs.
Marshall Wyatt and Octave
Blake, all in Pinehurst.
Bin Junior Cops
Sandhills Cup In
Steeplechase Race
Bin Junior, a dark brown seven
year old gelding recently added
to the stable of M. G. (Mickey)
Walsh, romped home five lengths
ahead of his nearest competitor
to win the Sandhills Cup in the
12th annual Stoneybrook Steep
lechase Saturday.
The largest crowd in the his
tory of the event, estimated at
between seven and nine thous
and, cheered young Tommy
Walsh, the nation’s second lead
ing steeplechaser, as he booted
Bin Junior home the winner over,
the gruelling two and one quar
ter miles over timber. The race
ranks with any others in the past
for excitement which, inciden
tally, was added to when J.
Wyatt took a spill off Navy Talk
at the eleventh fence.
The victory gave the Sandhills
Cup, presented by Mr. and Mrs.
Dwight W. Winkelman, to Mrs.
Walsh for permanent possession
for a third win.
Grand Chal, the favorite own
ed by Alfred H. Smith and rid
den by J. Aitcheson, Jr., was
forced to run second again for
the second straight year behind a
Walsh entry. Last year it was
Mummer’s Knot, also ridden by
Young Walsh, who defeated
Grand Chal. Mr. Smith’s horse
went on to become the nation’s
top steeplechaser for 1958.
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Ewing, Hobbs
Filing May
Stir Interest
Two present members of the
Southern Pines Town Council,
Robert Ewing and James D.
Hobbs, have filed their candida
cies for re-election to the board.
Hobbs actually will not be
seeking re-election since he was
an appointee of the Council al
most two years ago. He is filling
the term of T. T. Morse, who re
signed.
Ewing is the Mayor'^ Pro-Tern,
a position to which he was elect
ed at the first meeting of the
Council.
Hobbs is an insurance man and,
thoiugh quite active in civic af
fairs in Southern Pines, ha(^ never
sought public office. Ewing is
publisher of the Moore County
News in Carthage and is chair
man of the Republican party in
Moore County and treasurer of
the North Carolina Republican
party.
Their filing this week brings
to five the numlber seeking the
five seats on the, Council. John
Ruggles, George Tyner and Dante
Montesanti, Jr., filed last week.
If the number filing increases
to more than 10 there will be a
primary April 27, one week be
fore the election May 5.
Three men have already filed
for the position of Judge of the
Recorder’s Court which insures a
primary. The three are W. Harry
Fullenwider, William Barber and
D. E. Bailey. Mr. Bailey is cur
rently serving on the Town Coun
cil and Mr. Barber is a Justice
of the Peace.
Harry Fullenwider
Seeking Election
As Court Judge
Baby Injured In
Wreck Near West
End This Morning
A four months old boy, Johp
Thomas Black, Jr., was seriously
injured about 10 o’clock this
morning when thrown from an'
overturning automobile.
The baby, son of Mr. and Mrs.
John Thomas Black of Biscoe,
was carried 'to Moore Memorial
Hospital first but later transfer
red to Chapel Hill.
Details of the accident are spot
ty but it is believed that the car
in which the youngster was rid
ing, and which was operated by
his mother, attempted to pass a
car near West End. The car went
off the road, hit the shoulder and
then, when Mrs. Black tried to
get it back onto the surface, she
was unable to stop and it^ rolled
over.
The car was brought to South
ern Pines by C. D. May pf May’s
Body Shop. He said it was de
molished.
State Highway Patrolman H.
A. Hight investigated.
W. HARRY FULLENWIDER
W. Harry Fullenwider, a prac
ticing attorney, became the third
candidate for Judge of the Sou
thern Pines Municipal Court
when he paid his filing fee Mon
day.
His filing assures a primary,
scheduled for April 27. Two other
candidates, William Barber and
Town Councilman D. E. Bailey,
have already filed.
Mr. Fullenwider, who is a part
ner of R. F. Hoke Pollock, the
present Judge of the court, has
never sought public elective of
fice before though he has been
active in civic activities of this
community for the past 10 years.
He said that if he were elected
he would continue the present
policies of the court which he
described as “being on k very
sound basis.”
A native of Monroe, where he
grew up, he graduated from the
University of North Carolina in
1941, then enlisted in the United
States Navy. He served in the
South Pacific area aboard a heavy
cruiser and received eight major
battle stars. He was discharged
with the rank of lieutenant, jun
ior grade.
Returning to the University, he
received his law degree in 1948.
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GOLF EXHIBIT
An exhibition golf match
featuring four of the nation's
top women professionals will
be played at Pine Needles
Club Sunday. The match and
a clinic preceding it will be
free to the public.
Mrs. Peggy Kirk Bell and
Wiffi Smith, a frequent visit
or to Southern Pines, will
play Fay Crocker and Mari
lyn Smith.
The clinic begins at 2 p.m.
and will be followed immedi
ately by the ihatch.
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BIN JUNIOR, a recently acquired horse in
stables of Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Walsh, won the
running for the Sandhills Cup in the cinnual
Stoneybrook Steeplechase Saturday before the
largest crowd in the event’s history. He is
shown here at right as Tommy Walsh guides
him over a timber hurdle neck and neck with
Secant, also a Walsh horse, ridden by Beverly
Gray.